different between drinkle vs trinkle

English

Alternative forms

• drenkle

Etymology

From Middle English drinklen, drinkelen, drenklen (“to plunge, drown”), from Old English *drenclian (“to drown”), frequentative form of Old English dren?an (“to give to drink, give drink to, drench, make drunk, ply with drink; soak, saturate; submerge, drown, plunge; sink”), equivalent to drink +? -le and drench +? -le. Compare dronkle, drunkle.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??k?l

Verb

drinkle (third-person singular simple present drinkles, present participle drinkling, simple past and past participle drinkled)

1. (transitive) To drink (an alcoholic beverage); also, to cause (someone) to drink such a beverage; to drench; to drown.
2. (intransitive) To drink an alcoholic beverage; also, to become intoxicated; to get drunk.
3. (intransitive) To drown.

Derived terms

• drinkling

Anagrams

• Kindler, kindler, red link, redlink

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???k?l/

Verb

trinkle (third-person singular simple present trinkles, present participle trinkling, simple past and past participle trinkled)

1. (Scotland, rare) To trickle.
2. (rare) To tinkle.
3. (obsolete) To act secretly, or in an underhand way; to tamper.

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References

[1] (the tears trinkled down her cheeks), [2] (the tears trinkled down Trim's cheeks], [3] (my own heart's blood came trinkling down)

Anagrams

• Tinkler, tinkler